:Fire...remember...Just saying!
Look at any photo of a Turd World South American city. See the water tanks? Why, you ask does a city with a municipal water system have this? Because they only put pressure on the system one hour a day or so. Ask any one that works with these systems what protects the water from ground water contamination. Pressure. Add to that people actively pumping water out of the system and no wonder you get I’ll drinking their water. Wait until our power systems are energized for a few hours a day.
By the way, one CAN run a generator on firewood. Syngas. Most of the private vehicles in Europe ran on it in WW II.